Additive symmetries: the non-negative case

  • Authors:
  • Marc Daumas;Philippe Langlois

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme, UMR 5668 CNRS, INRIA, ENS de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46, allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France;Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme, UMR 5668 CNRS, INRIA, ENS de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46, allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - Real numbers and computers
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

An additive symmetric value b of a with respect to c satisfies c = (a + b)/2. Existence and uniqueness of such b are basic properties in exact arithmetic that fail when a and b are floating point numbers and the computation of c performed in IEEE-754-like arithmetic. We exhibit and prove conditions on the existence, the uniqueness and the consistency of an additive symmetric value when b and c have the same sign.